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“The Principles of Occult Healing” is a vintage treatise by Mary Weeks Burnet. Within it, Burnet explores the subject of occult healing, looking at what it means, different methods and schools, the power of music, and much more. Contents include: “Occult Healing and Occultism”, “Occult Healing Schools”, “Healing and the Healing Intelligence”, “All Healing is Occult”, “The Indestructible Self”, “Latent Powers in Matter”, “The Auras and the Ethers”, “Two Principal Types of Cures”, “Polarization”, “Healing by Prayer”, “Angel of Deva Helpers”, etc. “The Principles of Occult Healing” will appeal to those with an interest in occult subjects, and it is not to be missed by collectors of vintage literature of this ilk. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

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Philosophie

Philosophie de l'esprit

Santé et bien-être

Santé du quotidien

Occultism

Spirituality

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	17 septembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781528767897
Langue	English

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THE PRINCIPLES
OF
OCCULT HEALING
A WORKING HYPOTHESIS WHICH INCLUDES ALL CURES
STUDIES BY A GROUP OF THEOSOPHICAL STUDENTS
EDITED BY
MARY WEEKS BURNETT, M.D.
Copyright 2018 Read Books Ltd.
This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
TO
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY HENRY STEELE OLCOTT, ANNIE BESANT, A. P. SINNETT AND CHARLES W. LEADBEATER, WHO HAVE BROUGHT THEOSOPHY- THE DIVINE WISDOM-TO THE WESTERN WORLD.
TABLE OF CONTENTS F OREWORD I. O CCULT H EALING AND O CCULTISM II. O CCULT H EALING S CHOOLS III. H EALING AND THE H EALING I NTELLIGENCE IV. A LL H EALING I S O CCULT V. T HE I NDESTRUCTIBLE S ELF VI. L ATENT P OWERS IN M ATTER VII. T HE A URAS AND THE E THERS VIII. T WO P RINCIPAL T YPES OF C URES IX. P OLARIZATION X. H EALING BY P RAYER XI. A NGEL OR D EVA H ELPERS XII. M USIC XIII. H EALING BY T HOUGHT -F ORMS AND C OLOR XIV. H EALING BY M AGNETISM XV. H EALING BY M ESMERISM XVI. T HE H EALING M IRACLES OF THE C HRIST XVII. A S CIENTIFIC W ORKING H YPOTHESIS A DDENDA . C OMMENTS ON THE R EPORT OF THE C LERICAL AND M EDICAL C OMMITTEE OF L ONDON , E NGLAND
FOREWORD
To Occult Medicine we shall owe discoveries destined to extend the domain of Philosophy, was the prophecy of the renowned French philosopher Descartes. Today, nearly three hundred years later, we find his words approaching fulfilment, for the world is face to face with a new movement in Therapeutics. An insistent, increasing, persevering demand is arising for investigation into the hidden side of the Health law; for a fuller, clearer light upon the Truth of Health itself. The hour of Occult Medicine has come.
At present, however, the demand for the truth is not universal; instead, the conditions strongly exemplify the eternal struggle between the radical and the conservative. The radicals include a very large number of separate organizations of intellectual people who believe that the laws of Health are as yet but imperfectly known; who are seeking to discover the hidden truths of Health which, from observed facts of healing, they are convinced will make them independent of drugs and surgical operations. To the radicals belong also the students of Sociology, who are demanding that measures for the prevention of disease and for the establishing of a true standard of Health shall obtain, not alone for the classes, but for the masses as well.
On the other hand, materialistic medical science, basing itself on the inviolability and invariableness of known physical laws, declares that healing other than by physical remedies is not practical; that the cited cases of occult healing-where the disease is obscure, and the remedies used cannot be measured and handled-are not subject to fixed laws, and therefore that such cases are wholly outside the domain of scientific investigation. This ultimatum is supposed to preclude further discussion.
But these so-called un-scientific healings have occurred and are continually occurring; so there must be in this world, admittedly built and sustained by law, a law governing these cures. It is in the hope of helping to find a basis for the classification and scientific study of these many thousands of unclassified cures, to help to find the law of them, that this little book is written.
It is fully in keeping with this intellectual evolutionary progress that we shall attempt to apply religious, philosophic and scientific concepts in the solution of the more fundamental medical problems which are now coming to the front. For instance, we can more easily investigate and explain the oftentimes extremely difficult facts in cures, by noting their reciprocal relations with other laws of Nature.
This is the age of scientific constructive hypotheses. Medicine is in process of construction. It is only in the experimental stage as yet, and experiment is its method. Its first law is to study facts; to observe reasonable caution in presenting explanations, and a willingness to recast conclusions that may have been arrived at on insufficient data; to use the same open-mindedness, tolerance and fearlessness as do the researchers in Astronomy or Physics.
The demand of the age is, that a scientific study be made of the etheric bodies and the emotion and mental bodies of our every-day humanity; that the power which the Self, the super-man, can assert over his own mind, his own emotions, and over the etheric elements in his physical body, shall be recognized and taught as a definite part of the larger therapeutics. In addition to this, there must come an intellectual recognition that there are greater and lesser intelligences working in all matter. The subtler sense faculties of healers and healed must be trained to note the actual effect of thought and emotion upon and through human bodies. For this training no divine gift is needed. It is only necessary that healers shall learn to use the sense organs which already exist in these finer bodies, which belong to the phenomenal world of sense, but are, except in a small number of cases, as yet undeveloped.
Science, working in Physics, is demonstrating conclusively by means of rays and waves, that there are different grades of matter, each with its own rate of vibration. In advanced Photography, science is furnishing proof that thought and emotion express themselves as definite shapes in matter so fine as to be invisible to the physical eye. In Psychology, science recognizes the Self as the builder and ruler of its bodies. Other sciences are taking advanced steps. Let us gather together these already established facts and correlate with them the facts of healing, facts of differing bodies and types, facts of all the known laws of Nature, including the great fact of Evolution, and thus help to make ready for the next step forward in medical progress. Reasonably, when the etheric and desire-emotion and mental bodies of human beings become disordered, each must have its own specialized form of treatment. Should we not study carefully all the bodies before attempting to treat the apparently physical ailments which may be directly traceable to a disabling of one of the finer bodies?
The evolution of the atomic theory furnishes an illustration of the urgent necessity at this time for a more liberal attitude of mind toward the inevitable changes in the science of Therapeutics. The theory of atoms was supposedly complete; the chemical atom was, by the Western world, accepted as a finality in atoms. But facts relating to atoms were from time to time found which were not accounted for under that theory, and through further research in Nature s secret, occult storehouse, a still more ultimate atom has been discovered, which consists of infinitely finer matter and powers and possibilities, and the chemical atom has been-not blotted off the register, but-relegated to its proper place as a very fine molecule. The real science of atoms has been advanced immeasurably, but who can now say when the ultimate atom will be found?
So of the Health law. The knowledge of it is but fragmentary. The many unclassified facts of healing can reasonably be hypothetically viewed as expressions of certain unknown, or but dimly glimpsed, potentials existing within the sphere of Health. These facts cannot be suppressed, therefore their source should be found at whatever cost to long-time cherished views.
In very ancient days, India had a graded system of healing, adjusted to meet the needs of the various types of bodies. It gave to the younger in evolution the crude drugs, while for those much more advanced other remedies than drugs were used. Today, the swift, resistless onward sweep of the new cycle of evolution forces Therapeutics beyond the study of remedies for the bodies of the less evolved alone, and necessitates an understanding and control of such of the hidden potential powers of the Health law as will apply to the more advanced in evolution also.
The modern mind, with its ready acceptance of the law of evolution, and of the continuity of life, is beginning to glimpse the fact that a profound philosophy underlies the healing power; that there may be grades above grades of studies in human needs in health and healing; and that the gross and etheric matters of the physical body, and the still subtler matter of the emotion and concrete mind bodies, must not be treated as one undifferentiated mass of matter, but that their differing rates of vibration shall be as definitely calculated and given due place in treatment, as would be done in a corresponding problem in physics.
In the few cases selected for illustration, no attempt to prove their truth will be made, though that is known. They are given only as examples of well-known facts, in and through which we may hope to find some explanation of the occult processes of the Health law. In what is set forth in the following pages, we have drawn freely from the literature of all lands, believing that we should not limit ourselves in our search for truth.
The Theosophical Society is not responsible for any statements contained herein.
The Principles of Occult Healing

CHAPTER I
OCCULT HEALING AND OCCULTISM
The Healing Art , as understood by medical practitioners today, may be defined in terms of Occultism as Physical Occultism. It directs its attention to physical results only, ignoring the hidden causes. The greater Occultism, the knowledge of the Soul, of the Self, of the continual action and reaction between Self and the body, has no place in its curriculum. This condition cannot long continue, for it is becoming known even to the masses that all healing is occult, hidden; that its source is not in the doctor nor the drug.
In order to understand the term Occult Healing we must know its source and something of its relation to the great